{"title":"Sigrid Nunez","description":"Sigrid Nunez is the author of several novels including A Feather on the Breath of God and For Rouenna. She has received a Whiting Writers' Award, the Rome Prize in Literature, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship. She lives in New York City.","products":[{"product_id":"the-vulnerables-paperback","title":"The Vulnerables - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, \u003ci\u003eHARPER'S BAZAAR, VOGUE, THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICE, THE IRISH TIMES, NEW REPUBLIC\u003c\/i\u003e AND KIRKUS REVIEWS \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Friend\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhat Are You Going Through \u003c\/i\u003ebrings her singular voice to a story about modern life and connection \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I am committed, until one of us dies, to Nunez's novels. I find them ideal. They are short, wise, provocative, funny -- good and strong company.\" \u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003eDwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"With the intimacy and humor of a great conversation, this novel makes you feel smarter and more alive.\" \u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePeople Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An ode to our basic need to connect with other beings, be they human or animal, even in a global crisis that told us to stay apart.\" \u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003eNPR\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today, says a character in Sigrid Nunez's ninth novel. \u003ci\u003eThe Vulnerables\u003c\/i\u003e offers a meditation on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history and considers how our present reality affects the way a person looks back on her past. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Humor, to be sure, is a priceless refuge. Equally vital is connection with others, who here include an adrift member of Gen Z and a spirited parrot named Eureka. \u003ci\u003eThe Vulnerables\u003c\/i\u003e reveals what happens when strangers are willing to open their hearts to each other and how far even small acts of caring can go to ease another's distress. A search for understanding about some of the most critical matters of our time, Nunez's new novel is also an inquiry into the nature and purpose of writing itself.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103786897631,"sku":"9780593715529","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/3mocvpd9FD9780593715529.webp?v=1781097620"},{"product_id":"last-of-her-kind-paperback","title":"Last of Her Kind - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u0026lt; I\u0026gt;The Last of Her Kind\u0026lt; \/I\u0026gt; introduces two women who meet as freshmen on the Barnard campus in 1968. Georgette George does not know what to make of her brilliant, idealistic roommate, Ann Drayton, and her obsessive disdain for the ruling class into which she was born. She is mortified by Ann's romanticization of the underprivileged class, which Georgette herself is hoping college will enable her to escape. Then, in 1976, Ann is convicted of murder.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104847892703,"sku":"9780312425944","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/UJCC1oB61I9780312425944.webp?v=1781111441"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/sigrid-nunez.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}